Window guard



Oct. 3, 1939. 1.. c. JONES WINDOW GUARD Filed March 20, 19-39 2 Sheets-Sheet l Inventor Lew/l9 (J. 1/5/765 A fiorneys C. JONES WINDOW GUARD Oct. 3, 1939.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 1939 Inventor Q M m I A iiorneys Patented Oct. 3, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application March 20,

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in window guards for use on the rear windows of automobiles.

The invention is designed with the particular purpose in view of providing'a lightweight, in-

expensive device of the character specified which is readily attachable to and detachable from the rear window to prevent snow and ice from collecting thereon and thereby obstructing clear vision through the same.

To the accomplishment of the above, and subordinate objects presently appearing, a preferred embodiment of my invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings, set forth in detail in the succeeding description, and defined in the claim appended hereto.

In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary View in rear elevation of an automobile body having the guard of my invention applied to the rear window thereof.

Figure 2 is a view in vertical section taken on the line 22 of Figure 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows and drawn to an enlarged scale.

Figure 3 is a View in elevation of the visor member looking at the under side thereof.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view in transverse section taken on the line 44 of Figure 3, and

Figure 5 is a view in perspective of one of the extensions.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, the guard of my invention comprises, as its principal element, a plate-like visor l of any suitable material, such as sheet metal, having a substantially rectangular body part 2 provided with a curved front side edge 3 and a rear side edge rolled, as at 4, to reinforce the same. The body part I is designed to fit at its front edge 3 in the window opening 5 of the automobile body against the window pane 6 and to incline rearwardly and downwardly from said pane and is of a width adapting the same to extend well beyond the bottom of the usual modern slanting automobile window. The front side edge 3 may be bowed to conform with the curvature of a modern type window opening 5 of presentday automobiles and notched, as at 1, to straddle the usual dividing bar 8 of such windows.

The body part 2 of the visor I has formed integrally therewith rightangularly disposed triangular end flaps 9 flaring edgewise downwardly and rearwardly. A pair of sheet metal extensions ID are provided for said flaps 9, said extensions being similar in shape to said flaps. The extensions it! are designed to be attached to the 1939, Serial N0. 263,018

window pane 6 against the ends thereof to extend edgewise rearwardly therefrom, small ends uppermost. For this purpose each extension In is provided with a rightangularly related inturned front edge flange II and with a pair of 5 resilient suction cups l2 on said flange adjacent opposite ends of the latter for attachment to the window pane 6. The end flaps 9 are pivoted,

as at l3, to the smaller ends of said extensions [0, whereby the visor I may be swung up and 10 down on said extensions l0 into different inclined positions. The visor i may be clamped to the extensions ID in different set positions by means of bolts, as at M, extending through said flaps 9 and through slots in said extensions [0, as 15 at i5, and equipped with nuts I6.

Additional means for detachably securing the visor i to the window pane 6 are provided as follows. In the transverse center of the part 2 of said visor adjacent the front side edge 3 thereof, 2 a U-shaped bracket I1 is suitably fixed to said part to straddle the bar 8, said bracket terminating in rightangled ends i8 equipped with a pair of suction cups IQ for attachment to said pane 6. A pair of laterally spaced arms 29 ex- 26 tend from the under, or front, face of said part 2 on opposite sides of the transverse center thereof, respectively, adjacent to said center and the rear edge of said part, said arms having a bolt 2! extending therethrough. A pair of brace bars 22 80 are connected at the corresponding ends thereof, side by side, to said arms 20, respectively, by the bolt 2!, whereby said bars are located upon opposite sides of said bar 8, respectively The opposite ends of said bars 22 are rightangled and 86 equipped with suction cups 23 for attachment to the window pane 6 adjacent the lower edge thereof and also adjacent opposite sides of the dividing bar 8. Slots, as at 24, in the bars 22, through which the bolt 2| extends, provide for a sliding and pivotal connection of the bars 22 to the arms 25. A nut 25 on the bolt 2| provides for clamping the bars 22 to the arms 20.

As will be manifest, the arms 2% and bars 22, likewise the bracket H brace the center of the visor I under a load of snow thereon. By loosening the nuts l6 and the nut 25, the visor I may be swung on the pivots l3 and cups ES to differ ent positions and under tightening of said nuts clamp said extensions l0 and bars 22 in such difierent positions. By breaking the suction of the cups I2, l9 and 23, the entire device may be easily detached.

The foregoing will, it is believed, suffice to impart a clear understanding of my invention without further explanation.

Manifestly the invention, as described, is susceptible of modification without departing from the inventive concept and right is herein reserved to such modifications as fall within the scope of the subjoined claim.

What I claim is:

A guard for the rear window of an automobile including a visor adapted to be attached to said window in rearwardly and downwardly extending position and including a flat body part of substantially the length of said window having triangular end flaps downturned at right angles thereto, and means to attach said flaps to the window pane for swinging adjustment of said visor vertically into different set positions comprising a pair of triangular extensions for said flaps, respectively, suction cups spaced along one edge of each extension for attaching the latter to said pane in vertical rearwardly extending position thereon with one apex end uppermost, pivotal connections between the apex ends of said extensions and the upper ends of said flaps, and means in the transverse center of said visor for attaching the body part to said pane on opposite sides of a central window strip including a pair of laterally spaced brace bars pivotally and slidably connected to the body part adjacent the lower edge thereof and provided with outturned ends having suction cups thereon, and a U- shaped bracket extending from said part adjacent the upper edge thereof and having outturned ends also provided with suction cups thereon.

LEWIS C. JONES. 

